GOP Pledges Medicaid Probe

New York state Senate Republicans plan to investigate the state's Medicaid program after news reports and a congressional audit alleged it was fraught with waste and mismanagement.

After taking office in 2011, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to slow growth in Medicaid, a health program for low-income people. At $54 billion a year, New York's Medicaid program is the costliest in the U.S.